Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Equality has consequences

Shocking video footage shows a bounce punch a woman in the face after she took a swing at him. The incident took place on Matthew Street in Liverpool and was posted on Twitter, sparking a huge response - with many people debating as to who was in the wrong. The woman, wearing high heels, marches towards the burly bouncer before swinging a punch towards his head. The bouncer ducks to avoid the flying arm and hits her hard in the face, causing the woman to stumble backwards.

Aggression should always be met with aggression. Violence should always be met with violence. Unless you are a Christian making a point about turning the other cheek, logic dictates that any failure to respond to violence with even more violence is only going to incentivize and encourage its use in the future.

It's very, very easy to avoid being hit back, whether you are a man or a woman. Don't hit anyone first.

The comments are mostly either a succinct "good for him" or white knights morally preening.

"A gentleman never strikes a lady" has been twisted from being a behavior-based idiom into a gender-based one: "a man never hits a woman." I wonder if this was done purposely or just the result of lazy minds.

This looks like self-defense. People don't get that fights aren't like on TV. People really do get injured. All she needed to do was scrape her fingernail in his eyes and he'd be on disability for a good while.

Beyond that, there is something called instinct. Sometimes people just react no matter who attacks them. Instinct doesn't discriminate. This is why it's best not to provoke people, especially ones whose job it is to clamp down on rowdies.

The bouncer pulled his punch and barely hit the woman - she was teetering off balance already and managed to stay up afterwards. If he'd struck her at even half-strength she'd have been down hard. That was a warning, too bad it wasn't understood.

White knights are getting thinner on the ground these days, and most of those aren't about to go after an experienced bouncer. Self preservation can even trump the blue pill, it's not wise to challenge a man who makes his money with his fists.

Why is the drinking problem so bad in England? Or is it really not that bad, and I onlt get that impression becuase of rags like the Daily Mail?

Anyways, I guess this is what happens when you fight on the wrong side in two World Wars and dismantle your empire - drunk women walking around the streets taking swings at bouncers while hostile browns flood in. Sad!

Well we can't let our standards slip. Truly, a gentleman should never under any circumstances, strike a lady.

Fortunately, no lady would ever assault a man, so whatever it was that got her face handed to her was assuredly not a lady.

Pretty much. The "gentlemen never strike ladies" thing presumes that gentlemen only strike when struck.

Why is the drinking problem so bad in England? Or is it really not that bad, and I onlt get that impression becuase of rags like the Daily Mail?

I remember reading somewhere (take with grain of salt) that Brits have the highest rate of liver transplants in Europe. Also, that the Irish drink four times as much per capita as they did in the 1960s.